My unsleeping city illustrations! Available early on my Patreon!

30/09/23

yes, all my fav pcs are played by emily axford, i can't help it

NOTE: her design is based on @transformersweatpants 's wonderful art (link in replies)

There is something so deeply comforting about Sophia Lee making close friends well into her adulthood when she seemingly had none before the events of Unsleeping City.

Doodled my faves from Unsleeping city

my piece the lovely d20 sleepover zine :-) tysm to @oxenfreetual for making it happen. check it and other zines out here @d20zinejam

[id: a digital drawing of pete, sofie, maddie, and cody from the unsleeping city, sitting together on the floor of a living room. the purple magical sky lights the room through a window behind them. they are wearing pajamas, pizza boxes open in front of them. sofie is painting her nails, pete and maddie are talking, and cody is playing a game on a ds. they are all smiling /end id]

thinking about the discussion about pete in unsleeping city

and the discussion about saccharina in crown of candy

and how both could have gone much differently

both better, but also worse

and how sophie was team pete

and how liam was team saccharina

there’s a message here, but i’m not figuring it out

What Dreams May Be Offered - D20's American Dream

In the finale of the first season of Dimension 20: The Unsleeping City, all but one of the Heroes of New York are offered everything the American Dream believes they want, and all of them refuse, and what they're offered and how they reject the offer are great pieces of capstone characterization.

Ricky is offered a life of safety and a chance to live the life his parents always dreamed he would. He asks if it's only his dream, and states that everyone should have their own dream. His parents were immigrants, so this makes sense - to him, everyone being able to get what they want if they work for it is the American Dream.

Sophia is offered her husband back and a quiet home in the suburbs, her deepest desire, and she says no, partially because she just saw him when the Dream momentarily killed her. She rejects this because her duty to the Concrete Fist demands that she and her husband live in the city, and this duty is part of what defines her.

Kugrash is offered the life he gave up. Life as a man free of his curse. He rejects it, saying that he gave up that life, and that he's learned to live with that failure. Kugrash also exposes, for a moment, the corruption of Robert Moses' American Dream by making it a rat like him - a rat from the rat race he saw in hell. As a former stockbroker, he knows that corruption far too well.

Misty/Rowan is offered a life of parties and freedom and luxury, free of the ritual she has to do. She tells it that it doesn't have to enter the real world to be real and that that's why she loves the American Dream. It reveals the hidden depths that have been hidden at, as well as a desire to protect the people that provide for her. She doesn't just take, she gives back, not only in the form of Hope, as Nod alluded to, but in the form of putting her life on the line in a hopeless situation.

Kingston is offered the life he gave up in protection of New York. He sees a life where he doesn't have to sacrifice himself, where his duty is done. Kingston asks "But at what cost?", putting the needs of others before himself, as he always has done, before telling the Dream that, in no unceratin terms, he will stop it, and that he's ready to die doing so.

But then, in speaking to the Vox Phantasma, it doesn't offer to fulfill a dream. It knows that Pete, in that moment, has everything he wants - friends, a home, and a sense of purpose. Instead, it makes a fascinating mistake. The American Dream tries to compare itself to the Vox Phantasma through identity - it tells Pete it wants to be who it knows it is, a reference to Pete's gender identity, which pisses Pete off. Ally, as Pete, then requests to make an Arcana check to see the Dream as it truly is, and, in classic Ally fashion, roles at Nat 20. This Nat 20 allows Pete insight into the eldritch Dream, and that the American Dream must remain formless.

So, yeah.

Me when I only perceive the comedic aspect of Axford's work and then I get blindsided with emotional maelstroms when the thing she made is way deeper and more emotional than I thought despite all the signs being there albeit hiding beneath a thin but well crafted veneer of comic relief.

You and me both, Sophie Bikes.

friendly reminder that sometimes it's good enough to just cause minor confusion at a family event <3

You’ve heard of hot boy summer or whatever, now get the hell ready for hot fat transfem fall, motherfuckers!

Hey gang. Who wants some The Unsleeping City fanart ? /tw gore I suppose, its hard to see but its implied

This moment changed my life

[Image description: a dark background of moving color and darkness, grey buildings far below the subjects. In the foreground, Sophia Bicicleta is falling back in the air as she's pushed by a powerful spell coming from The American Dream in front of her. Sophia is a white woman with big curly black hair in a ponytail, bright red lipstick, a dark long-sleeved shirt that leads into a belt and a dark black miniskirt, black with gold leopard print leggings, and black high heels that are falling off of her. She is also using a spell that shows as glowing green cat paws coming from her hands, along with a glowing green cat tail from behind her. She is looking defiantly at The American Dream despite the fact that the back of her chest has exploded out of her body with incredible force. The American Dream is a basic mannequin looking giant humanoid that has a hand outstretched towards Sophie, power exploding from its finger. Around the Dream are flowing tendrils that match the colors of the American flag. The magic from its finger is glowing with intensity in front of Sophie and behind her as it blows through her body. And finally, leaping off of Sophia's shoulder and towards the hand of The American Dream, is a pack of New York Rats. A small swarm of grey rats leaps as a group to attack The Dream. They are glowing from the spell going through Sophia. Signed KATFISH at the bottom right corner, End Image Description]

i am literally dale lee from the unsleeping city and the unsleeping city: part 2 (wife guy) 

emily axford has one type of pc and its >:D

Adaine's panic attack mechanic and Pete and Sophie's relapse mechanic are so fucking good as disability rep in dnd. they capture the unpredictability of mental illness and recovery and they are a perfect manifestation of how a disability can and does influence even your smallest actions. in this essay i will—

I’ve just started Unsleeping City and this is my beginning of season alignment chart placement for the pc’s.

I put Pete in Chaotic Neutral for the time being

(i’ll update with a new alignment chart when i’m done with season one to see if anything has changed lol)